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Diverse Experience Farming

Diverse Experiences of Farming

Building a place-based social licence to operate
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The land use suitability concept: Introduction and an application of the concept to inform sustainable productivity within environmental constraints

This paper addresses an application of the LUS concept: evaluating the suitability of land for sustained productivity subject to environmental constraints, as defined by water…
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Monitoring to detect changes in river water quality across New Zealand

Presentation at Freshwater Sciences 2023, the joint meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science and the Australian and New Zealand Freshwater Science societies.
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Linking the uptake of best management practices on dairy farms to catchment water quality improvement over a 20-year period

Intensive land use, such as dairying, can impair water quality. Although many guidelines exist on how to mitigate the loss of dairy-associated contaminants from land…
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Continuous measures of confidence in direction of environmental trends at site and other spatial scales

Managers and decision-makers need to know if variables measured by environmental monitoring programs are increasing or decreasing, both at individual sites and at larger spatial…
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New Models Of Collective Responsibility

New Models of Collective Responsibility

Developing new ways to strengthen the connection between people, land and water
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An integrative approach to silvopastoral system design: perspectives, potentials and principles

Silvopastoral systems have complex impacts on a diverse range of outcomes, making it essential to design these systems using an integrative approach to maximise positive…
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Whole systems impact of composting shelters in New Zealand: Final report

The overall conclusion of this report is that composting shelters have diverse benefits to the human environment, the biophysical environment and to animal welfare, and…
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Assessing the Effectiveness of On-Farm Mitigation Actions

This research summary describes how effective on-farm mitigations have been so far, by comparing losses of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sediment in 1995 and…
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